Word: orcutt
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...British championship a few years ago. They had to play against Joyce Wethered, indisputably the ablest lady player in the world. Since Joyce Wethered has stopped bothering to win ladies' championships, U. S. women have had a chance. The chance seemed better than ever last fortnight when Maureen Orcutt won, with a 151, the medal in the first qualifying rounds ever held before a British Women's amateur championship. Six other members of a U. S. team that had beaten England the week before qualified for match play...
Meanwhile at Saunton in Devonshire it was raining, too, as a flock of U. S. women, fresh from a team victory over British women (TIME, May 30). qualified for the women's British Open golf championship. The rain stopped long enough to let Miss Maureen Orcutt play around in the phenomenal scores of 73 & 78, winning the medal and putting the U. S. flag alone on a British golf club's flagstaff for the first time in history...
When the 18-hole elimination match play began, the U. S. ranks were decimated at blind random. One of the first to fall was Medalist Orcutt, 2 & 1 before a Miss Jean Hamilton...
...routine beating 6 & 4 from England's poker-faced Joyce Wethered, rated the world's greatest woman golfer. Pretty Enid Wilson ran into the ground husky Helen Hicks, the gallery's grinning, clowning favorite. Diana Fishwick, a highstrung little fighter, did the same for Maureen Orcutt. The matches were even at three for England, three...
...Maureen Orcutt: the North and South Women's golf championship; from Mrs. Opal Hill; in Pinehurst, N. C. Miss Orcutt, never in the lead until the end of the natch, sank two putts each more than...